Visual Impact Assessment (VIA) Photography for Wind Turbines and Solar Arrays
I can produce the wide-angle stitched panoramic views and single frame planar images currently required for wind turbine / wind farm / wind energy VIA's following guidelines (see below) and best practice developed from years of photographic experience.
There are numerous guidelines for the production of wind and solar energy photo-montages, being fully aware of the following guidelines lets me create images that surpass the requirements for Visual Impact Assessments (VIA) photography.
- Landscape Institute/IEMA Guidelines for The Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment (3rd edition 2013).
- Scottish Natural Heritage, Visual Representation of Windfarms - Guidance V2.2 2017.
- Scottish Natural Heritage, Siting and Designing Wind Farms in the Landscape - Guidance V3 2017.
- Highland Council Visualisation Standards for Wind Energy Developments (2016).
- Landscape Institute Visual Representation of Development Proposals TGN 06/19 (2019).
Here are some examples of the image formats available. The following panoramas were created with a 50mm lens mounted in portrait orientation so that the raw images were each 26.4° x 39.6° . The images were taken in that orientation as several of the images from that set had large objects close to the camera and using the more normal landscape orientation would have unduly cropped them. The camera was rotated 15° between images to create the full 360° panorama. Selecting one of the images below will access examples of the standard views required by wind energy Visual Impact Assessments (VIA) including the planar requirements.
Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway crossing Botolph`s Bridge Road, Kent - (360° x 39.6° view)
A stitched panorama using a 50mm lens on a vertically mounted camera to give increased height to the panorama (9:1 ratio).
Image Copyright © Ian Humes
A stitched panorama using a 50mm lens on a horizontally mounted camera which produces a shorter panorama (10:3 ratio).
Image Copyright © Ian Humes
A planar image (53.5° x 18.2°) extracted from the previous cylindrical projection panorama (41:13 ratio).
Image Copyright © Ian Humes
Military Canal near Hamstreet, Kent - (360° x 39.6° view)
A stitched panorama using a 50mm lens on a vertically mounted camera to give increased height to the panorama (9:1 ratio).
Image Copyright © Ian Humes
A stitched panorama using a 50mm lens on a horizontally mounted camera which produces a shorter panorama (10:3 ratio).
Image Copyright © Ian Humes
A planar image (53.5° x 18.2°) extracted from the previous cylindrical projection panorama (41:13 ratio).
Image Copyright © Ian Humes
Overlooking St. Mary's Bay, Kent - (360° x 39.6° view)
A stitched panorama using a 50mm lens on a vertically mounted camera to give increased height to the panorama (9:1 ratio).
Image Copyright © Ian Humes
A stitched panorama using a 50mm lens on a horizontally mounted camera which produces a shorter panorama (10:3 ratio).
Image Copyright © Ian Humes
A planar image (53.5° x 18.2°) extracted from the previous cylindrical projection panorama (41:13 ratio).
Image Copyright © Ian Humes
Overlooking the Lincolnshire Lakes, Scunthorpe - (180° x 39.6° view)
A stitched panorama using a 50mm lens on a vertically mounted camera to give increased height to the panorama (9:2 ratio).
Image Copyright © Ian Humes
A stitched panorama using a 50mm lens on a horizontally mounted camera which produces a shorter panorama (10:3 ratio).
Image Copyright © Ian Humes
A planar image (53.5° x 18.2°) extracted from the previous cylindrical projection panorama (41:13 ratio).
Image Copyright © Ian Humes
Looking north along the M181, Lincolnshire - (180° x 39.6° view)
A stitched panorama using a 50mm lens on a vertically mounted camera to give increased height to the panorama (9:2 ratio).
Image Copyright © Ian Humes
A stitched panorama using a 50mm lens on a horizontally mounted camera which produces a shorter panorama (10:3 ratio).
Image Copyright © Ian Humes
A planar image (53.5° x 18.2°) extracted from the previous cylindrical projection panorama (41:13 ratio).
Image Copyright © Ian Humes
Looking east from the River Trent - (180° x 39.6° view)
A stitched panorama using a 50mm lens on a vertically mounted camera to give increased height to the panorama (9:2 ratio).
Image Copyright © Ian Humes
A stitched panorama using a 50mm lens on a horizontally mounted camera which produces a shorter panorama (10:3 ratio).
Image Copyright © Ian Humes
A planar image (53.5° x 18.2°) extracted from the previous cylindrical projection panorama (41:13 ratio).
Image Copyright © Ian Humes
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